assizes

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Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cumberland is in the northern circuit, and assizes are held at Carlisle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Examinations would be conducted, assizes would be held, and for all I knew, Mr. Herbert might be condemned and hanged while we were yet marching and countermarching upon the borders.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

At the assizes at Bury, at the time we speak of, the sheriff’s pomp and state was something approaching to regal splendour.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard